WANGANUI CREMATORIUM
O.C. WANGANUI, This Day. Considerable controversy has arisen in Wanganui regarding the building of a crematorium, a notice having been served on the City Council by the Health Department. The council agreed, prior to the last municipal election, to go ahead with a project which required the raising of a loan of £15,000, in which is included the purchase of- 11 acres of land, at Aramoho at a price of £2300. The Wellington Rural Land Sales Committee, however, has ruled that the price to be paid for this area must not exceed £1800. This will result in the council and the vendor having to come to some new arrangement if the sale j lis to go through. The committee's decision almost coincided with a petition, signed by 2972 ratepayers, placed before the I council objecting to the building of a crematorium at the present time, and suggesting that the matter be deferred. Part of the land the council was intending to buy for the site of the crematorium was for ordinary cemetery purposes, an extension of.the city cemetery at Aramoho having become necessary.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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185WANGANUI CREMATORIUM Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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